International Labour, Research & Information Group (ILRIG)
ILRIG is committed to human liberation in the sense of a vision of a society free from oppression, inequality, and poverty. The causes of such oppression, inequality, and poverty are seen to be attributable to current patterns of ownership and control prevailing in the world, including the fact that oppressed people do not have the political power to transform such patterns. The main focus of our work is in assisting working class formations to find different and directly democratic ways of self-organising. Linked to this, we provide tools of analysis to aid activists to deepen their understanding of the context we are in and promote progressive ideas, values, principles and practices amongst working class organisations that counter the impacts of neoliberalism and the oppression of class rule, the nation state, racism and patriarchy. All our work stresses democratic participation and interaction, and is geared towards supporting strong, principled working class organisations that can build an alternative to reactionary ideas and practices such as authoritarianism, populism, and ultra-nationalism, which have emerged within a fraying neoliberal capitalism.